With less than a week to go before football National Signing Day, it has become the calm before the storm in terms of media coverage. USF’s recruiting commitments look to be one of the worst classes in program history, from a ranking perspective. The old coaching staff did some unusual things in recruiting over the past year. For starters, they used some of the 2017 class’ scholarships on other players. That made for a small class to begin with. To compound the problem, they filled up their limited slots with low rated recruits many months before National Signing Day. Prior to Willie Taggart’s tenure at USF, the Bulls had typically managed a few surprises at the end. For some reason, this class was all wrapped up many months ago, leaving incoming head coach, Charlie Strong, a bad situation. There have already been reports of offers being downgraded or withdrawn from recruits to make room for others. By the looks of things, Strong has more than one signing day surprise in the works.

Looking Back

The USF men’s basketball team continue to struggle, losing their eighth straight to UConn on Wednesday night, 81-60. The Huskies have had problems of their own, but managed to beat USF with just six players.

While the men’s team was losing again, the 23rd ranked women’s team was winning again, edging out SMU, 52-51 on Wednesday. They improved to 16-3 on the season, with two of their losses coming against #1 UConn and #9 Louisville.

Looking Forward

CBS Sports has a Crystal Ball feature on USF recruiting, evaluating where the Bulls stand with selected recruits. One of those recruits, Naytron Culpepper, is a four star prospect.

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